Long jumps 🙂

[Dingo40]

 

[debra]

These small jumps (all still within a region that's less than half of a piano's 88 note range) are one of the downsides of playing piano-accordion.
They are jumps because they are further than you can stretch between thumb and pinky. I'm so glad I took the plunge to start on CBA where a "jump" of two octave is not a jump and can be played legato...
But practice makes perfect. Everyone can learn to hit jumps right every time, as long as you stick to the same accordion for a long time (or at least to accordions with the same key width).

 

[Walker]

They say it's very difficult to eat a donut without licking your lips... I imagine it's equally difficult for button accordionists not to comment to piano accordionists that a two octave jump is "not a jump".

 

[Rosie C]

But practice makes perfect. Everyone can learn to hit jumps right every time, as long as you stick to the same accordion for a long time (or at least to accordions with the same key width).

Yes, it crept up on me, but after three months continuous practice on one accordion I've developed a muscle memory to hit keys! It doesn't work on my other accordion though.